Introduction : beyond postmodernism / Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan
The surprise of otherness : a note on the wartime writings of Paul de Man / Barbara Johnson
The problem of aesthetic value / Peter Burger
Metaphysics at the moment of its fall / Albrecht Wellmer
The theory of reception : a retrospective of its unrecognized prehistory / Hans Robert Jauss
Resonance and wonder / Stephen Greenblatt
Text, author-function and society : towards a sociology of representation and appropriation in modern narrative / Robert Weimann
Undecidability as hermeneutic contraint / Michael Riffaterre
Literariness, dominance and violence in formalist aestetics / Ann Jefferson
Conversions : The merchant of Venice under the sign of saturn / Sarah Kofman
Identification and the real / Julia Kristeva
Feminism and literature / Elaine Showalter
Articulating the archaic : notes on colonial nonsense / Homi K. Bhabha
Poststructuralism, marginality, post-coloniality and value / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
